Class #2
Early in the class we were getting introduced to HTML format and how to look at it by right clicking on most web browsers. For example you can see the HTML code for this blog post by switching between the ‘Visual, and Text’ tabs at the top corner of this text box. We later went on to see some differences between HTML and XML text formats. We then transitioned into how historians analyze the past. They don’t generalize and try to make things relate like many social sciences. Documents and fragments are important to them but also it’s just as important to keep an open mind to what you don’t have. Later we looked over a ‘dear John letter’ giving me a taste of things to come for when we get our soldiers next week. Some advantages of DH (digital history) are: Capacity, accessibility, flexibility, diversity, manipulability, interactivity, hypertextuality. Some disadvantages are: quality, durability, readability, passivity, inaccessibility. What is most unfamiliar to the way we look at history I think is the way we can easily access everything through the internet. It’s all just the click of a mouse away. Next class we will be able to see our soldier and I think using our computers to analyze the documentation in front of us should be really cool because I’ve never done anything like that before. It’s going to be very interesting to track my soldier through his life that occurred a few centuries ago. I’ve also been trying to set up my rss via Feedly, however when I attempt to register it makes me sign up for a Google email. I’ve made about three different email accounts and every time I try to sign in with it the system tells me I’ve used the incorrect log in info when I’m sure I’m using the right info. I’m hoping to get to the bottom of this problem by next class so I can set it up.
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